The County Watchers

• Who pays for these trips

  I had the displeasure of having to sit through the above ceremony, involving the county manager’s wife, at a recent freeholder meeting. The entire spectacle which included speeches and pictures, took longer than the peoples business discussed at a prior agenda meeting which took all of 14 minutes to appropriate [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:08am EST
  by Tina Renna

• League of Municipalities Conference

  The League of Municipalities Conference is only one of 30 conferences Union County Employees attended in 2008. Although they didn’t go as far as Hawaii where they traveled to a conference at a cost to taxpayers of approximately $18,230 in 2005, they’ve traveled around the country costing tens of thousands [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:10am EST
  by Tina Renna

• Union County Citizen’s Forum 11.12.09 Regular Meeting

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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:03am EST
  by Tina Renna

• Citizen requests disease be removed from Sheriff’s Department

  Submitted by: Bruce Paterson Statement read at the Union County Freeholder meeting on 11/12/09. Good evening, acting Chairman Sullivan, ladies and gentlemen of the freeholder board, this is Bruce Paterson, Garwood, NJ. When I think of the term sheriff I think of a position of integrity, that we should feel of sense of [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 8:18am EST
  by County Watchers

• Settlement document obtained in prisoner’s wrongful release suit

  The County watchers previously reported that a lawsuit had been filed and settled by an inmate who had to have her toes and parts of her heels removed due to frostbite because even though she was found to be a threat to herself and others the county wrongfully released her [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:38am EST
  by Tina Renna

• Union County Citizen’s Forum 11.5.09 Agenda Meeting

  Feedback: Good morning, Tina: In regard to your reporting on the Freeholder meeting last evening, I have information regarding your comments on Senate Bill 1861. The bill did not die in May, but in fact is alive. According to legislators, it has an opportunity to be enacted upon before the session ends at [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:32am EST
  by Tina Renna

• Fixing Open Government in NJ

  The Fixing Open Government Symposium, recently held at the State House and sponsored by the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government, is now available on the web. The keynote address by NJ State Comptroller Matthew Boxer is a must see for all local government watchdogs to appreciate how difficult their [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:25pm EST
  by Tina Renna

• Prisoner’s wrongful release kept secret through two county prison escapes

  At the October 8, 2009 freeholder meeting CHAIRMAN MIRABELLA, approved the settlement of pending litigation entitled Lynette Baker-Blevins v. UC, et als, Docket No. UNN-L-0297-09. This is the first time this litigation appeared on the radar. You won’t find anything about this case on the prosecutor’s press release web page or [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:50pm EST
  by Tina Renna